IF WE DON'T CHANGE OUR DIRECTION...WE'LL END UP WHERE WE'RE HEADED.....
I'd hate to end up where I was headed....change is GOOD!
Monday, January 12, 2009
I Felt Like Homer Simpson Today
Except I wasn't drooling over Doughnuts......
I made Justin some buttered toast this morning. I left the butter on the counter and I left for a bit and when I came back and saw the softened butter.....I got all googly and thought like Homer must....and.....said.....BUTTER.....but no....didn't touch it! I am actually turned off by the stuff! I made real, yeah...the real kind....french fries for my family the other night and I was so grossed out by the smell and the oil popping everywhere....talk about yuck! I do not miss that crap at all.....of course I had to make my lovely comments to make them all so much more appealing to them..."here's your artery clogging, thigh jiggling, muscle shrinking, fat sludging...etc, etc..."
I just ate a very yummy salad. I grilled some chicken last night. I am such a good griller! I put the slightest bit of bbq sauce on it and it was delish! Anyway...I have these super high fiber, light English muffins so I cubed them and put them in a bowl with a teaspoon of olive oil drizzled on them with these Italian seasonings I got from this fancy smancy oil store and I shook them around and then put them on a pan and toasted them for some yummy bread crumbs. I put them on my salad with left over grilled chicken and lots of veg's.
Today's number is 29.2.
Justin and I are going on a walk in a bit as soon as my lunch settles. It was so cold this morning but it is turning out to be so nice. I like going to the gym but if I can be outside in the sunshine I love that even more!
I am super excited about my garden plans....Yeppers! I have planted my herbs in the little starter thingies already. I checked out some books and the bug has bit me. I am looking forward to getting it started. Someone on the Coastie Chicks board mentioned "Square Foot Gardening" and I checked out the book and I do believe this is going to be the way to go......What a fun hobby this is going to be for our entire family. I can say......."Kids......go pick me a salad!" hahahahaha
Katie wants strawberries so I told her she is in charge of learning about those and those will be her babies but of course she has to share.
I made Justin some buttered toast this morning. I left the butter on the counter and I left for a bit and when I came back and saw the softened butter.....I got all googly and thought like Homer must....and.....said.....BUTTER.....but no....didn't touch it! I am actually turned off by the stuff! I made real, yeah...the real kind....french fries for my family the other night and I was so grossed out by the smell and the oil popping everywhere....talk about yuck! I do not miss that crap at all.....of course I had to make my lovely comments to make them all so much more appealing to them..."here's your artery clogging, thigh jiggling, muscle shrinking, fat sludging...etc, etc..."
I just ate a very yummy salad. I grilled some chicken last night. I am such a good griller! I put the slightest bit of bbq sauce on it and it was delish! Anyway...I have these super high fiber, light English muffins so I cubed them and put them in a bowl with a teaspoon of olive oil drizzled on them with these Italian seasonings I got from this fancy smancy oil store and I shook them around and then put them on a pan and toasted them for some yummy bread crumbs. I put them on my salad with left over grilled chicken and lots of veg's.
Today's number is 29.2.
Justin and I are going on a walk in a bit as soon as my lunch settles. It was so cold this morning but it is turning out to be so nice. I like going to the gym but if I can be outside in the sunshine I love that even more!
I am super excited about my garden plans....Yeppers! I have planted my herbs in the little starter thingies already. I checked out some books and the bug has bit me. I am looking forward to getting it started. Someone on the Coastie Chicks board mentioned "Square Foot Gardening" and I checked out the book and I do believe this is going to be the way to go......What a fun hobby this is going to be for our entire family. I can say......."Kids......go pick me a salad!" hahahahaha
Katie wants strawberries so I told her she is in charge of learning about those and those will be her babies but of course she has to share.
Friday, January 9, 2009
That "BAD PLACE"
So I am finding myself in the "bad place" where I require lots of self talk. Not about I am tempted by food or anything because suprisingly...I have no desire to break from my routines with eating well or exercising. I just find myself being hard on my body in my head. I have been down this road before....so I know the drill and here it goes...and the ever familiar march....
I wonder how I could explain it. I am sure I am smaller....but my head or my eyes don't want to see that. Instead...I look in the mirror and think "I should be smaller than this" or run my hands over my body and think...."It's just not good enough yet". I know that is nuts....not right and everything else but it comes with fight. This is where I have given up before because this is where it gets so sticky. So I am going to do as I was told by "Arty" to do....just be aware of those feelings...and instead of trying to ignore, push away...think it's wrong for me to have them, try to change them....ACKNOWLEDGE them and then move along. How old am I? I am almost 43? I have probably not been thinking quite right for a long time so that is not going to change over night. I have also been overweight for a long time and my body is not going to change over night....neither is my perception of it.
So I keep on going....and going and going. They are not all "UP" days. Fiber isn't yummy every day...hahahahaha.
I stared down that eliptical last night and I beat it for 15 minutes! I was proud of myself. I hear folks say how much they like it...Personally I don't get it but that's okay. Anyway...they other day I did 10 minutes on it and then my 40 on the Treadmill but last night I did 15 minutes and then my Treadmill. Before you know it I'll be one of those sweating like a pig maniacs on it like my husband....hahahahahaha. (love you honey!) No, seriously, that was an accomplishment for me....little by little.
Alright...gotta a house to clean...which never gets accomplished...it stays in this state of suspension of a big mess no matter what I do....Why did we get such a big house? Uhggggg!
Toodles!
I wonder how I could explain it. I am sure I am smaller....but my head or my eyes don't want to see that. Instead...I look in the mirror and think "I should be smaller than this" or run my hands over my body and think...."It's just not good enough yet". I know that is nuts....not right and everything else but it comes with fight. This is where I have given up before because this is where it gets so sticky. So I am going to do as I was told by "Arty" to do....just be aware of those feelings...and instead of trying to ignore, push away...think it's wrong for me to have them, try to change them....ACKNOWLEDGE them and then move along. How old am I? I am almost 43? I have probably not been thinking quite right for a long time so that is not going to change over night. I have also been overweight for a long time and my body is not going to change over night....neither is my perception of it.
So I keep on going....and going and going. They are not all "UP" days. Fiber isn't yummy every day...hahahahaha.
I stared down that eliptical last night and I beat it for 15 minutes! I was proud of myself. I hear folks say how much they like it...Personally I don't get it but that's okay. Anyway...they other day I did 10 minutes on it and then my 40 on the Treadmill but last night I did 15 minutes and then my Treadmill. Before you know it I'll be one of those sweating like a pig maniacs on it like my husband....hahahahahaha. (love you honey!) No, seriously, that was an accomplishment for me....little by little.
Alright...gotta a house to clean...which never gets accomplished...it stays in this state of suspension of a big mess no matter what I do....Why did we get such a big house? Uhggggg!
Toodles!
Thursday, January 8, 2009
27.4 BOO YA!
Yeah Baby!
Yesterday Justin and I walked for an hour. The thing that sucks is that I have a lovely blister on my right heel. I am afraid of what that may do to me today. I may try wearing my old shoes and see if it doesn't bother me. I got new shoes this weekend and I am trying to break them in. (New Asics) I guess worse case is I will do all weights and stretching today if that is what it comes down to. That is something right?
I seriously need a haircut! BAD! It's just that my hair looks so awful that I am embarrassed to go to get it cut. So tell me how much sense that makes? hahahahaha I am letting the grey grow come in. The last time I got it cut I told the lady to thin it out because I wanted a bunch of the color cut off. She didn't do what I asked so I took a pair of thinning shears to it...and well, I went a little willy nilly. So it needs to be shaped up....I guess I won't do that again. Well, never say never....
Yesterday Justin and I walked for an hour. The thing that sucks is that I have a lovely blister on my right heel. I am afraid of what that may do to me today. I may try wearing my old shoes and see if it doesn't bother me. I got new shoes this weekend and I am trying to break them in. (New Asics) I guess worse case is I will do all weights and stretching today if that is what it comes down to. That is something right?
I seriously need a haircut! BAD! It's just that my hair looks so awful that I am embarrassed to go to get it cut. So tell me how much sense that makes? hahahahaha I am letting the grey grow come in. The last time I got it cut I told the lady to thin it out because I wanted a bunch of the color cut off. She didn't do what I asked so I took a pair of thinning shears to it...and well, I went a little willy nilly. So it needs to be shaped up....I guess I won't do that again. Well, never say never....
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
I have hit that place on the tread mill!
It's not making me sweat like it should! Yuck....that means I have to turn it up a notch! I crank that sucker up to 15 incline and do that for good stretches of time, and then I go back to walking at a pretty good clip of 3.5 mph with and incline of 2.5 but it's not enough. I am on the treadmill for a good 45.50 minutes but it's not enough....so I need a new game plan. I tried to run on there the other night but don't know if I don't have the new shoes broken in or what but that was a no go. I am about to head out to the Dr. Gonna be curious to see what she says when she sees what I have lost in the last month.....coin toss....she gonna be happy or tell me to slow down. Who knows.
I am going to make a low fat King Ranch Chicken for dinner tonight. Katie will love that....she loves that dish....
I talked to my dear friend Tammy today........(Love you T-Bob!) I miss her! It was fun talking to her today. If I was in Cape Cod...I could be walking in the snow.....shoot....I could be snow shoeing....hahahahahaha!
I am going to make a low fat King Ranch Chicken for dinner tonight. Katie will love that....she loves that dish....
I talked to my dear friend Tammy today........(Love you T-Bob!) I miss her! It was fun talking to her today. If I was in Cape Cod...I could be walking in the snow.....shoot....I could be snow shoeing....hahahahahaha!
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Wow, It's 2009
Can you believe it's 2009???????????
I can hardly believe it! Where has the time gone?
I went and worked out this afternoon. I did 50 hard minutes on the treadmill. There was a lady in the gym and we were talking and that made the time go so much faster. It turned out she is a trainer at Bally's Fitness. I told her what I have been doing and though she was concerned about the rate of my weight loss she said it did sound like I am doing all the right things. She did say that I need to add weights to my routine or I am not going to like my body soon. I know she is right. So I will work on a schedule of reps on the machines in the gym. Fortunately they have a nice set up over there and it'll only add 20 minutes more or so to my work out. I can do weights on 3 of my work out days a week.
We got the tree out. I have to pull all the boxes out from under the stairs and put everything away. I am not looking forward to that. I am looking forward to the holidays being over with though. This time of year things start to settle a little bit. I can get in to my groove and continue to get strong. I have got to get back to my medical coding. I really have gotten behind and I want to pick it back up and start studying. I could actually study while I am on the tread mill....hmmmmmmmm.....that's an idea.
I go to the Dr. on Tuesday...I wonder what she is going to say.....she is either going to be happy or tell me to slow down....I just don't know what I could do differently. I am not being stupid.....I really eat well, eat plenty and exercise moderately.....I believe I have just gone from one who drank nothing but diet soda and was sedentary and ate bad stuff....to drinking water, eating well and the amount I need for fuel and moving my body.....so I am losing. It will slow way down eventually.....I know that day is coming....the smaller I get.....but for now....I'll enjoy this.
I can hardly believe it! Where has the time gone?
I went and worked out this afternoon. I did 50 hard minutes on the treadmill. There was a lady in the gym and we were talking and that made the time go so much faster. It turned out she is a trainer at Bally's Fitness. I told her what I have been doing and though she was concerned about the rate of my weight loss she said it did sound like I am doing all the right things. She did say that I need to add weights to my routine or I am not going to like my body soon. I know she is right. So I will work on a schedule of reps on the machines in the gym. Fortunately they have a nice set up over there and it'll only add 20 minutes more or so to my work out. I can do weights on 3 of my work out days a week.
We got the tree out. I have to pull all the boxes out from under the stairs and put everything away. I am not looking forward to that. I am looking forward to the holidays being over with though. This time of year things start to settle a little bit. I can get in to my groove and continue to get strong. I have got to get back to my medical coding. I really have gotten behind and I want to pick it back up and start studying. I could actually study while I am on the tread mill....hmmmmmmmm.....that's an idea.
I go to the Dr. on Tuesday...I wonder what she is going to say.....she is either going to be happy or tell me to slow down....I just don't know what I could do differently. I am not being stupid.....I really eat well, eat plenty and exercise moderately.....I believe I have just gone from one who drank nothing but diet soda and was sedentary and ate bad stuff....to drinking water, eating well and the amount I need for fuel and moving my body.....so I am losing. It will slow way down eventually.....I know that day is coming....the smaller I get.....but for now....I'll enjoy this.
New Years....We're Back!
Well, back from our trip to Mississippi! It was fun but I am tired. I feel like there is so much to be done here. Unfortunately I got in only one day of walking because my lovely female troubles kicked in. You see.....I have been on projesterone for 10 days to force "Mother Nature" in to rearing her ugly head and she did....WITH A VENGENCE. It was almost so bad I thought I might be anemic due to the lack of red meat I have eaten in the last 6 weeks or so. So I layed pretty low for two days feeling kinda weak.
Anyway....I weighed in this morning and have a new numbah!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Down 26 pounds. Not bad. I think I may have to go rifle through the Good Will racks because I am not going to invest in new clothes because I won't be in them long enough to get any money's worth out of them. I am kicking myself for giving away my "skinny clothes". I am in what few I had in my closet.
I have spent a good bit of the day reorganizing my kitchen cabinets and the Christmas Tree awaits....YUCK! I am not looking forward to putting all that stuff away but looking forward to getting the house back to normal. Fun Times.
Alright....gotta finish my yogurt and then get the kitchen all finished, go workout and get back to work....too much to do and too little time to do it in.
Happy 2009! May Everyone Be Blessed This Year With Positive Changes!
Anyway....I weighed in this morning and have a new numbah!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Down 26 pounds. Not bad. I think I may have to go rifle through the Good Will racks because I am not going to invest in new clothes because I won't be in them long enough to get any money's worth out of them. I am kicking myself for giving away my "skinny clothes". I am in what few I had in my closet.
I have spent a good bit of the day reorganizing my kitchen cabinets and the Christmas Tree awaits....YUCK! I am not looking forward to putting all that stuff away but looking forward to getting the house back to normal. Fun Times.
Alright....gotta finish my yogurt and then get the kitchen all finished, go workout and get back to work....too much to do and too little time to do it in.
Happy 2009! May Everyone Be Blessed This Year With Positive Changes!
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